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Ah, your English doesn't go so far as that; you don't know what a spoiled child is? è la cianciosella, you Neapolitan girl! Why, of course I'm glad to see you I am delighted to see you but you frightened me, Nina your coming like this, alone " "I frighten you, Leo?" she said, and a quick laugh shone brightly through her tears. "Ah, I see it is that I have no chaperon?
"I know how to tell Leo that I am here," Nina said, simply; and she went to the piano and opened it. Then, with the most exquisite softness, she began to play some familiar Neapolitan airs slowly and gently, so that they must have sounded in the sick-chamber like mere echoes of song coming from across wide waters. And would he not understand that it was Nina who was speaking to him; that she was only a few yards from him; and not the ghostly Nina who had so often come to the sick-room door and remained there strangely silent, but the wilful, gentle, capricious, warm-hearted cianciosella who had kissed his hand but a little while ago, and wept over it, amid her bitter sobs. These were love-songs for the most part that she was playing; but that was neither here nor there; the soft, rippling notes were more like the sound of a trickling waterfall in some still summer solitude. "Cannetella, oje Cannetè!" "Chello che tu me dice, Nenna, non boglio f
With her head still bowed down, and her whole frame shaken with her sobbing, but still clasping his hand, she murmured to him some phrase Maurice guessed it was in the familiar Neapolitan dialect; for Lionel presently said to her slowly, because of his heavy breathing: "Ah, you are still la cianciosella! but you have come back and not to go away. I have forgotten so many things.
Why did she go away, Maurice? why did she go away from us all? the poor cianciosella!" These rambling, wearied, broken utterances were suddenly arrested: there was a tapping at the outer door and Lionel turned frightened, anxious eyes on his friend. "I'll go and see who it is," Mangan said, quietly.
Never mind, Maurice, I am going away to find Nina ah, that will be a surprise some day a surprise just as when she first came here into the room in the black dress and the crimson bonnet la cianciosella, she was going away again! she was always so proud and easily offended always the cianciosella!"
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